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I'm pretty sure the most likely scenario is that we'd get sent back to the 18th century. 19th and perhaps early 20th if we're lucky. Stone age would require a disaster that would thoroughly exterminate the vast majority of the world and destroy everything we've built in the process.

Is it accessible to a low tech civilization? I mean I don't know much about fracking.

Confucianism is fairly collectivist. Though to be fair, having read some of their stuff, they've also historically advocated for something like minarchist rule. Believing that the Emperor should act more like a distant locus of power who leaves communities to govern themselves.

And the same can be said of a child as well. When I was a toddler I drew people as heads with sticks for legs and hands. Believe me, none of this really clarifies the difference.

This is actually pretty similar to what happened to the Tech Scene awhile back. Scott Alexander in his 'paranoid rant' article basically detailed how Silicon Valley lost the favor of the American Left. I used and still am to an extent a fan of Slate Star Codex. But the site is just piteous...

Cargo cultists are not exactly known for their rationality or practical thinking.

In regards to output, I think a better analogy is probably a human arm to a mechanical one. Both are intended to create the same output, and one is made with the basic overall structure of the other. But in terms of actual sophistications and properties, one is but a cheap copy. Though...

How is 'understanding' even defined in this context? Like in exact terms what does it mean to say that an LLM doesn't or can't 'understand' something?

Russia is a stillborn and sickly empire, so that I can see. China is a colossal and dense civilization. China has been conquered by foreigners before, ruling China almost always seems to have a tendency to turn you Chinese. While they have their own illnesses and maladies to reckon with, look...

I can see materially, but I do wonder as to the quality of that empire given difference between the US and Rome. I mean as much as I love the US, we are kind of softer compared to Rome. Barring the civil war we've never really been threatened or had to face a crisis to the same degree then...

I feel like some version of this always seems to exist in primitive societies. I distinctly recall that a lot of tribal societies, whether it be African, American or Asian, tended to be headed by councils, with chiefs having to listen to the demands of those members or simply just popular...

Do Jewish progroms fit with model as well? I've read once that they tend to correspond to hard times and crises that Jewish communities tended to be isolated from.

Given the rate of progress in the field, I can't say it will remain that way for long. At this point I'm beginning to think that in the future, a Ministry of Truth/Information will simply just become a staple part of government. Because its obvious modern governments are simply not prepared...

Also, even the USSR did not have the ability to put everyone in a gulag. They generally speaking did actually have to and tried to appease their citizenry when they could and faced consequences if things got to too bad. Honestly just look at their propaganda and monument, there is a constant...

Summarizes my agnosticism and spiritual crisis pretty well. Being apostate, I better hope that Islam is wrong, because then I've bought myself a ticket to the deepest portions of hell......but I better hope those Christians are wrong too, because then I'm also going to hell for eternal torment...

The Imperium does still have its many inefficiencies and needless cruelties(two word, worker's rights), but yeah I think the major schtick for the Imperium in this regard is that it follows a fairly 'universal religion' all things considered. It doesn't care about your skin color and it doesn't...

Depends, there are similarities to be found in their overall structure I'd. They most certaintly are not communist, in both practice or aspiration. But the Soviet Union is arguably one of the last imperial powers in OTL. They were obsessed with and needed central control, but at the same time...

Do you think the only two forms of governance that exist are 21st century universal liberal democracies and everything else. Which apparently encompasses every human civilization for the last 10,000 years? Which is not unique to our time... The concept of people being able to mock or...

Can I ask you to elaborate on this? The Enlightenment and the aftermath Reformation pretty much covers the course of the last 5-300 years of history. Isn't it a bit extreme to call it a massive mistake and a net negative on the world? I mean I can of course gesture to the problems plagueing...

That depends really. It's usually the kids that are the problem, on the account they tend to assume they earned their parent's wealth. Some of them are humble, others are not in my experience. I've seen a girl jump spots in academics to steal the valedictorian spot of another girl. Who more or...